A variety of stories lead Saturday’s papers.

The Guardian, external says it could take police years to retrieve the internet search history of the Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana. The paper says officers are locked in a lengthy legal process to get the data from Google and Microsoft because the teenager deleted the browsing history on his devices before carrying out the attack. The Guardian says the information could provide vital clues about why he targeted a group of children. Google says it is supporting police with their inquiries, while Microsoft has declined to comment.

The Daily Telegraph, external says Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “hiding behind the UN” after he refused to extend whole-life prison sentences to teenage murderers like Rudakubana. Downing Street says it is bound by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The former Conservative justice secretary, Sir Robert Buckland, tells the paper that those rules are not binding and have not been incorporated into UK law.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has talked up the economy in an interview with the Times, external. She tells the paper there could be as many as six interest rate cuts by the middle of next year and that the UK could do with a dose of US President Donald Trump’s “optimism”. She also says there are good reasons why Britain could avoid the tariffs Trump is threatening to impose. Reeves says the president is “worried about countries that have large and persistent trade surpluses with the US” and that that’s not the case for the UK.

The weekend edition of the i, external says the government is being warned that it will have to open up the NHS to private companies if it wants a trade deal with Trump. The paper says US drugs firms want the UK medicines watchdog to relax its rules on prices. The article says government sources insist access to the NHS would be a red line in trade talks.